Former Celtic attacker Kris Commons is adamant that the season simply cannot be declared null and void without recognising the Bhoys’ achievements this term, writing in his Scottish Daily Mail column (17/03 print edition, page 83).
The Scottish football shutdown has thrown governance of the game into a chaotic situation.
With no guarantees football will return quickly enough to finish the season, the authorities are assessing their options.
Celtic personnel like Neil Lennon and Scott Brown are making it clear we should be declared champions, while clubs such as Hearts and Rangers putting public support behind a different path.
Commons is very much in the former camp, writing in his column.
He also thinks that rivals looking to use this situation to simply rail against Celtic’s dominance are out of order.
As quoted by The Scottish Daily Mail (17/03 print edition, page 83), he said: “What definitely can’t be allowed to happen, though, is for the past seven months to be wiped from history as if they never existed.
“It’s an argument which should be a total non-starter when the governing bodies thrash out their plans this week to take us forward.
“It’s also an argument which is being weaponised by blinkered fans who care as much about denying their rivals success as they do about seeing their own team do well.”
Commons is spot on here, a lot of the chatter around the season’s status has been born from just simply wanting to deny Celtic.
The clubs themselves are simply looking out for their own interests, but fans need to sit back and see how it all pans out.
If Celtic are not declared champions we’ll need to accept it. If we are, so will they.
Right now it’s looking like declaring the season null and void is a non-starter given other financial, broadcast and sponsorship issues.
Rallying against that simply to deny the Hoops seems rather petty, given the crisis facing Scottish football.
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